Mueller v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Teague v. Lane · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Penry v. Lynaugh
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'new rule principle ... validates reasonable, good-faith interpretations of existing precedents made by state courts even though they are shown to be contrary to later decisions.' " Mueller , 252 Va. at 362 , 478 S.E.2d at 546 (quoting Butler v. McKellar , 494 U.S. 407 , 414, 110 S.Ct. 1212 , 108 L.Ed.2d 347 (1990) ). "For purposes of 'new' rule analysis, the scope of the rule under examination is defined as the narrowest principle of law actually applied to resolve the issue presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional rule of criminal procedure generally will not be applied to a conviction which has become final before the rule is announced. Mueller v. Murray , 252 Va. 356 , 361, 478 S.E.2d 542 , 546 (1996) (citing Teague , 489 U.S. at 308 , 310 , 109 S.Ct. 1060 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'new rule principle ... validates reasonable, good-faith interpretations of existing precedents made by state courts even though they are shown to be contrary to later decisions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.